"The President is the President of Syria, not a faction of Syrians, and the First Lady supports him in that role," the email stated, according to AFP.

Asma Assad largely has remained quiet since the start of the protests in Syria in March 2011. The statement sent from her office reportedly said that "the First Lady's very busy agenda is still focused on supporting the various charities she has long been involved with and rural development as well as supporting the President as needed."

Asma Assad grew up in Acton, West London, the Daily Mail reports. She graduated from King's College London and worked for Deutsche Bank as an analyst in hedge-fund management before marrying Bashar Assad in 2000.

Asma Assad's family are Sunni Muslims from Homs, the city that has been heavily targeted by security forces in the past months.

"The shelling has been going on for days and the siege is getting worse. We are short of everything including food and medical supplies," Omar told the AP. "People here have not slept for days," he said.

Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad listens to a speech by her husband, President Bashar al-Assad, during a rare public appearance in Damascus on January 11, 2012. Assad vowed to defeat a 'conspiracy' against Syria, a day after he blamed foreign interests for stoking months of deadly violence. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)